Review Rocky Horror Lets Do the Timewarp Again

New 'Rocky Horror Picture Prove': Permit's NOT Do the Time Warp Again

Ken Tucker
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Featuring a fine performance past Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Blackness), The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let'south Practise the Time Warp Again, airing Thursday nighttime on Fox, tries to revive the 1975 cult classic, but the corpse of its monster-flick parody remains mostly inanimate.

Directed past Kenny Ortega, at present best known for his High School Musical films, the production will be familiar to anyone who has seen the original stage production or the Tim Curry-starring pic. Newbies may well be baffled as to what'south going on and what all the fuss is about.

The casting of Cox is the product's most notable achievement. Taking over the Dr. Frank-N-Furter role claimed definitively by Tim Curry (who appears in a cameo), Cox is magnetic, property the screen with her star power and effective vocalizing, if not excelling as a dancer — but, then once more, neither do nearly any of the other stars of this production. The overriding trouble with a Rocky Horror revival is that the mixture of genres that gave the original its fizz — horror movies, teen-rebellion flicks, and stag-party-level sexual naughtiness — at present means virtually zippo to a contemporary viewing audition.

When this Rocky was announced, I idea it was odd that Pull a fast one on wasn't going to do a alive production, in the way of NBC'due south Sound of Music and The Wiz. Now that I've seen it, the determination to present a taped version seems similar the only remaining perverse thing about this Rocky Horror circulate: The original attained its cult status past engaging its audience to such a degree that showings in film theaters became spontaneous theatrical events, with audition members singing along and tossing things at the screen. (The new production is framed as beingness a movie-theater showing of the show we're watching, complete with actors-equally-audience reactions, but that only farther distances us from becoming involved.) These days, were a alive production of Rocky Horror to air, people would be tossing barbs on Twitter and having a merry erstwhile fourth dimension praising and ridiculing. Fox has denied itself an opportunity to be the middle of a social-media party for an evening, which probably won't help the ratings.

The songs seem to keep endlessly, just perhaps that's considering I'm not a musicals fan. (The last one I was dragged to was Jersey Boys, and afterward I had to go home and heed to some original Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to erase the sludgy Broadway versions from my brain.) The Idiot box Rocky Horror brings along all the things that make theatergoing so bad-mannered, including the delivery of punchlines after which the actors freeze for a moment, waiting for the audience to laugh. At that place isn't much to laugh at in this production, which has taken its arch irony and presented it with an earnestness that works confronting the nature of the cloth.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show airs Th at 8 p.m. on Fob.

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